I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time.

  • -- George Shearing 乔治·谢林

我想艾灵顿公爵曾经说过,我们总是对目前的成绩感到最满意。我的意思是,你必须假设你能从中学到东西,下次你能做得更好。

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The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.

西方的艺术音乐是通过个人的天才在其历史中发展起来的,而且是在支持他们的土壤中发展起来的;非西方音乐家诞生了,并像野草一样生长。

Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.

只有快乐的人才会因为暴饮暴食而做噩梦。对于那些生活在噩梦般的现实中的人来说,睡眠是一个黑洞,迷失在时间里,就像死亡一样。

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

任何主题都适合歌剧,如果作曲家如此专注地感受它,他必须把它唱出来。

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

我可能不是一个一流的作曲家,但我是一个一流的二流作曲家。

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can not hear it.

音乐学家是能读懂音乐却听不到音乐的人。

I began to think my time had come, as the saying is.

正如俗话所说,我开始认为我的时代已经来临。